Technology will be added to Google’s search engine after explosion in use of rival backed by Microsoft Google is releasing its own artificial intelligence chatbot, called Bard, in response to the huge success of the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT. The company is also adding the technology behind Bard to the Google search engine to enable complex queries …
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Stars like Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford are being rendered younger digitally but voices in the industry express concern about where we might be heading Craggy, grey-haired and 80 years old, Harrison Ford might seem a bit old old to don his brown Fedora-style hat or crack his whip as Indiana Jones. But a trailer …
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PlayStation 5 (version tested), Xbox Series X, PC; Avalanche/Portkey GamesBeing able to wield a wand in the hallowed halls is enchanting, but what’s beneath the spell is competent but unspectacular Given how merciless modern pop culture is in its exploitation of childhood nostalgia, it’s remarkable there’s been no credible attempt at a big-budget Harry Potter …
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US-based PC maker makes move in order to reduce costs as ‘market conditions continue to erode’ Dell is to cut 6,650 jobs, or 5% of its global workforce, as the PC maker becomes the latest US tech firm to reduce costs amid economic uncertainty. Dell told employees that market conditions were deteriorating and that initial …
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With 100m sales of its Switch console, a new Mario movie and even a California theme park, the Japanese tech giant is riding high again. What’s its secret? Every Nintendo fan remembers the game that converted them. Perhaps it was running and jumping around as Mario in an abstract, toylike playspace, thrilling at the lightness …
TK; XboxThis music-centred adventure, an unexpected release, pits a teenage boy against robotic assassins in a colourful title for gamers of all talents The video game industry’s hype cycles are typically measured in months and years, not minutes and seconds. So the simultaneous announcement and release in late January of Hi-Fi Rush – the kind …
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Aspiring architects are using using social media, AI and digital technology to showcase their fantastical creations to the full “Something big is happening,” says Hamza Shaikh. “Architecture is entering a new age.” The ways in which buildings are imagined and communicated are, he argues, being transformed by a combination of social media and the ever-evolving …
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US and European fears about China exploiting TikTok’s data harvest and promoting Beijing’s worldview look set to inspire an urgent overhaul in data privacy laws The FBI has called it a national security threat. The US government has passed a law forcing officials to delete it from their phones. Texas senator Ted Cruz has denounced …
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Discovery of Lope de Vega play could lead to other important finds, researchers say Lost or misattributed works by some of the finest writers of Spain’s Golden Age could be discovered thanks to pioneering AI technology that has been used to identify a previously unknown play by the wildly prolific dramatist, poet, sailor and priest …
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Everyone uses Wikipedia, but should it really be affecting what happens in court? Remember when loads of academics were confidently predicting that technology, from robots to AI, was about to destroy all our jobs? They were wrong. We went into Covid with record employment before the pandemic, not the robots, knocked a chunk of people …
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